I just installed links2 on an NT server. I have a problem with the mailing part of the program though. Because I am on NT I do not have sendmail and my host also doesn't provide an smtp server. So what can I do to send mail using links2? I have being told that my server runs something called Blat but I have no idea what it is or how to use it and my host does not provide support for it. Please can someone help!!!!

Thanks,

Simon Dyson
sdyson@themaelstrom.co.uk

You do have access to sendmail, which is the Blat program.

You need to set the $db_mail_path in the links.cfg to the following:


This is the typical installation location of Blat.exe.

Check with your hosting company for the exact location where Blat resides.

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[This message has been edited by AnthroRules (edited April 27, 2000).]

Thanks. I'll give that a go. I actually asked my host if I could just replace the path to sendmail with the path to perl and they told me it wasn't as simple as that! I guess they were wrong.

 
You asked them the wrong question. You need to ask them where the Blat.exe file is located and how to link to it in your sendmail path.

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That was a typo, I meant to write:

I actually asked my host if I could just replace the path to sendmail with the path to
blat and they told me it wasn't as simple as that! I guess they were wrong.

I wrote perl instead of blat :-)